Christians Who Don't Know Him Continue in Iniquity and Self Deception

Some extremely dangerous and erronerous teaching is surfacing in the Body of Christ.  Teaching that speaks the truth that Christ died for every sin and that He took the judgment of God for the whole world, but then acts as if God winks at sin and no one has any responsibility to live according to God's Word.    Actually only repented sin is covered by the price paid by Jesus.  To repent means to completely change your mind concerning an issue.  If you no longer agree with a lie from the enemy and you choose to believe the truth of God's Word, then the lie  (stronghold) will lose it's power to hold you in sin.  The key is that you no longer agree with the sin or sin attitude and the power of the Holy Spirit will deliver you from all evil.  

The problem is that many have given into their sinful habits and attitudes and can not seem to find freedom, so their itching ears find teachers who pervert truth to satisfy their guilt.  Much of the Church has lost the power of the Holy Spirit and has substituted doctrine of man to justify the powerlessness she has experienced.  Selfish ambition seems to be a motivator for many of the teachers that embrace doctrine that appeases the conscience of man without a heart change that produces true holy behavior. 

Those who feel that the most important position that Jesus has walked in was "the Son of Man" and they identify Him as being their brother.  They do not understand fully the revelation that Peter received from the Heavenly Father that the Church would be built upon and that the gates of hell could not prevail against was Jesus as the " Son of God".  Jesus was God in the flesh. When the Word states that He was without reputation but humbled Himself as a man, I believe it reveals that the express image of God Himself, Jesus Christ, chose to walk in obedience to the Father and yield to the Spirit.  He would do nothing of Himself.  Hence, He was revealing how we could yield to the Holy Spirit and know what God in flesh would look like when He ascended and sent His Spirit to dwell in man.

  Jesus did come in flesh that He could redeem us from the evil one who had taken the authority from Adam.  Jesus was the last Adam as to redeem mankind.  However , the authority belongs to our Lord (hence why He is called Lord and we are not).  As I yield my very life to the Holy Spirit, He will sanctify it (getting the evil out thus producing true holiness).  Holiness is the absence of evil. 

To know God is to desire a relationship with Jesus based upon wanting to understand Him and His ways.  As we come to know Him we will understand Him.  We will fall in love with Him and doing as He commands will be are desire.  The Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth and bring us into the freedom that Jesus paid for with His own life.  Being holy is not just a simple phase without meaning.  It is not self righteousness that leads to judgmental attitudes and feeling of superiority.  Being holy is the outcome of spending time with a Holy God and yielding to His Spirit.  When I agree with the Lord then His power works in me to change me into His likeness.  We must not be silent and let our brothers and sisters continue to walk in ungodliness and call it freedom.

Why Are So Many Who Do Love God Straying From the Truth of the Identity of Jesus

The epistles are apostolic letters directed to believers of Jesus Christ.  They emphasize the working of the Holy Spirit on the earth to bring people to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and the need to repent of our sins.  The working of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of followers will bring about holiness.  He has been sent to convict the world of sin and then to enforce the finished work of the cross. Sanctification is a reoccuring theme throughout the apostles' letters to the church.  The Holy Spirit yearns for us to open our hearts to His work.  We will be amazed at the evil that lurks in hiding because we have not spent the time asking the Holy Spirit to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

One of the reasons that so many are trying to be like Jesus instead of understanding that we are to yield to the Holy Spirit revealing Jesus through our lives, is because we are still trying to prove that we have value or purpose.  Many have been content to believe that Jesus was just our "older brother" who showed us what we should be like.  The emphasis for many has turned to who we are in Christ instead of who He is in us.  The work of sanctification will free us from our own insecurities or highmindedness.  We would understand that God is not trying to use us but that His love completes us.  Then our love for Him draws us to spend time in His presence.  Becoming intimate with Christ will lead to fellowship with the Heavenly Father.  Our identity will no longer be about what we do or what we have, but will be based on who He is and what He did.  Unconditional love will heal our broken hearted places. Our greatest joy will be spending time with Him.  Then our only motivation for ministry will be to share Him with others.  His love pouring into us and then out of us to the world.   I hope you spend some time listening to the teaching on Beauty For Ashes web site.  Check out the video's in our media department and find hours of teaching and inner healing that will set you free to be content just knowing this awesome God who came in skin to die for us.  He then made a way for His Spirit to live in our skin (flesh) so as to bring forth a new creation that changes everything about our exsistance.  Oh this relationship with God is so deep and beautiful.